which is the best article directory script

by arttse
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Of the free ones I have read that Article MS is better that Article Dashboard. I dont have much information regarding any of the paid scripts.

Anone want to provide any feedback?
#article #directory #script
  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    The best one is one that you get custom coded ... Problem with those open source scripts is that they can be hacked easily and you have limited ability.

    Just tossing up a article directory today is not going to be the best thing to do. If you article directory is not going to offer something of great value and offer what other article directories do not offer then you are going to have a hard time getting it going.

    If you are planning on putting up an article directory just to use as an adsense farm then you need to rethink your plan seriously. Many of these types of article directories will be going out of business soon enough because they offer nothing to the authors. Some have already went out of business and more are going to follow.

    If you are interested in putting up an article directory then get one custom built, offer what others do not, and use a paid model and not a free article directory..

    Just my opinion ...

    James
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  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Riddell
    Interesting?

    Would it be worth while looking at becoming an author with EzineArticles?




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    • Profile picture of the author Tony Dean
      Have a look at the article directory in my sig. , you can have one for free.

      Bloggers download articles for free content and article writers upload to get traffic and backlinks.
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      • Profile picture of the author howinfo
        Article Friendly is the best one, at least in my opinion and that is what we run our article directory on.
        They also have very good online support.
        We did look many different article directory software and then decided to get article friendly and we are
        very happy with the decision we made as it looks very good and has many useful features and the back end is easy to operate. Will recommend it. Have a look around on our article directory and see what you think.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
          Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

          Article Friendly is the best one, at least in my opinion and that is what we run our article directory on.
          They also have very good online support.
          We did look many different article directory software and then decided to get article friendly and we are
          very happy with the decision we made as it looks very good and has many useful features and the back end is easy to operate. Will recommend it. Have a look around on our article directory and see what you think.
          What so special about it ? Looks like a standard run of the mill adsense farm with ads all over the place ... What special features are there for authors that other article directories do not have ??

          James
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          • Profile picture of the author howinfo
            Here is some of the ArticleFrendly features:

            Admin ability to ping major blogrolls such as Technorati, weblogs.com & pingomatic!
            Complete database repairs within the admin section.
            SEF Urls. Important pages show as .html rather than dynamic urls (AF Pro Version).
            Adsense ready. Enter your Pub ID Number and your adsense ads are done! Couldn't be easier!
            Remove non-contributing authors. Remove author accounts that never submit an articles with just one click of your mouse!
            Delete author account with articles. No articles without author names when you delete an author account. Articles by the deleted author are automatically deleted also!
            Auto Emails Authors. Auto Emails your authors when thier articles are approved or declined by you! Also gives admin an option to include more info in the email.
            Ban Bad Authors instantly. Ban authors thru your admin area quickly and easily!
            HTML Ready Articles. No need to have your visitors select/copy/paste articles they want in HTML ready format. Each article has the HTML ready article under the original, and all your visitors have to do is click a "copy" button and they've saved your site's article to their computer's memory. Its that fast and easy!
            Fast, Friendly front end. Authors can signup quickly and edit/delete their article, change their password or edit their author profile. This frees you for more important things!
            Upload Author Picture. Your author's can upload their picture and have it show in thier articles. This personalizes your articles and makes your author's feel like a part of your site.
            Star Rating System on all articles. Let your visitors know which articles are hot! Each article starts up rated as five empty stars and adds stars as the article is reviewed, read or downloaded. When they gain a new star is controlled by you.
            Cut & Paste Javascript RSS Feed aggregator/Styler! Each Article Friendly site comes with a link to our Free RRS Styler so your visitors can convert your RSS feeds to javascript for thier websites, style the feed and never leave your site!
            Included Language Translation System! Offer more readers the opportunity to read your site's articles in thier language. Gets your pages indexed by the major search engines in not only english, but in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese! Simply copy an include to where you want the flags and your done!
            RSS Feeds for every individual category and subcategory! Instead of your users having only one rss feed, they can have multiple feeds in any category. This is really handy for niche sites that only want specific content.
            Fast, dependable email confirmation system. New Authors must join, then click a confirmation link in your site's email before being allowed to post their articles!
            Multi-part emails. Send banners/Ads with your confirmation emails, and admin side author emails! Send to all authors, or just one, as plain text or html!
            Template based for easy customizations, but you aren't limited to just a few template files. You can customize any page in Article Friendly!
            Onboard Links Directory. Allows your users to post an link to their site and offers a recipical link to your site. Links can be approved, edited or deleted in your admin section.
            Anti-email harvesting "Contact Us" Form. Stops those email harvesting bots dead in thier track and reduces spam from your site, and scripts trying to use your site to mass email thru your contact us form!
            Most pages pre-filled in, so all you have to do is edit them the way you wish, or just change the spots for your site name and leave the pages as they are.
            Login system to keep your admin files safe.
            Approve All Articles By Keyword. You decide what keywords to approve article to which categories, then mass approve to your chosen categories!
            You can have multiple admins/editors for article editing/approving. Multiple editors can make your article directory a breeze to run, and all your editors can work at the same time without damaging your database.
            Onboard Duplicate Content Finder. Search your database for dupe content for questionable articles that may have been "borrowed" or several top search engines all at once, and all from within your admin section.
            Script auto emails you when a new author signs up! Keeps you informed of new signups and if the signup was a spammer or a legitimate author. Plus, it allows you to keep an additional record of your live authors!
            Duplicate Article Deleter. Removes the dupes, but keeps the original. This will keep google from penalizing your site for dupe content.
            Short Article Deleter. Set the minimum number of words, and then clear out the short ones!
            Add/remove/edit categories including subcategories!
            Admin can enter articles, and create new user accounts thru the admin backend.
            Add/edit/delete users, articles, countries and more thru the admin section.
            SEO (Search Engine) Friendly URLs. Article titles, categories and author names are included in the page title and article titles and categories full names are in the url of each article! HTML ready articles on each article page are also excellent fodder for Search Engines.
            Site Shows Most Recent Articles for rich keyword pages. Helps get the high Page Ranks from google, and top ranking in all the search engines.
            Full, Unecoded Fontend Source Code. Access all the pages and change every html, php or javacript to work any way you wish!
            Edit and customize your site the way you want it.
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            • Profile picture of the author industrial
              I'll pass on article friendly, nothing personal but I agree with richjerk that having it custom coded is essential. Open source scripts in the eyes of a hacker are like mouth-watering steaks to a pitbull. And the more popular your site is in the SERPS, the better that steak will taste to Joe Hacker. Believe me if you build a popular site using an open script hackers will find you.

              Anybody know a good programmer that can custom code an article script?
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              • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
                Originally Posted by industrial View Post

                I'll pass on article friendly, nothing personal but I agree with richjerk that having it custom coded is essential. Open source scripts in the eyes of a hacker are like mouth-watering steaks to a pitbull. And the more popular your site is in the SERPS, the better that steak will taste to Joe Hacker. Believe me if you build a popular site using an open script hackers will find you.
                Exactly why I custom code my sites ...

                Originally Posted by industrial View Post

                Anybody know a good programmer that can custom code an article script?
                You got about $1,000 I can help you ...

                James
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                • Profile picture of the author howinfo
                  You got about $1,000 I can help you ...
                  Lot of people do not have that sort of money for a custom script, and $1000 will not get you anything as good as Article Friendly. Also it is very easy to modify and ad some features if needed and it wont cost you arm and the leg. We also started a forum on vBulletin, to have something like that custom made, how much that would have cost us? At the moment our website have cost us around $ 600, to have that custom made would have costs us around 6k minimum, and I do not think it would do any better job than it is doing now. If you have really lot of money to spend why not, have a custom made script, but in most cases it is just not practical. I would rather spend that money on marketing.

                  If you start an article directory you have to keep in mind that 95% of the articles will come from submission services and the only feature you need for an author, is to be able to accept them from sites like Content Crooner, Isnare, Article Marketer and so on. As far as manual submissions by author go, I am keen article marketer and I have been submitting lot of articles in many article directories over the years and I do not look for any special features for authors before I submit my articles, all I want is that the particular article directory has high enough page rank that it would provide me enough clicks and some link juice. Good example is ezinearticles, there is no special features for authors but it is one of the most popular article directories. Ezinearticles is also a good example what you said about too many ads. There is adsence all over the place but I am getting more traffic form them than from any other article directory.
                  And what was said about the hackers, for $50 -100 you can have very good hacker software that will do superb job.
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                  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
                    You just have no idea ... I build custom built sites and yes I can supply an article directory 300% better .. Authors want features and you can compare it to EZA all you want .. Many of the adsense farms will be going out of business this coming year.

                    You offer nothing but for author to post, they will use your site just to slap junk articles thus bringing down the directory..

                    I also disagree that 95% of the articles come from submissions on all article directories because some have paid models that do not allow auto submissions...

                    Again though those article directories that take auto submit many of the articles are nothing but junk.

                    James

                    Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

                    Lot of people do not have that sort of money for a custom script, and $1000 will not get you anything as good as Article Friendly. Also it is very easy to modify and ad some features if needed and it wont cost you arm and the leg. We also started a forum on vBulletin, to have something like that custom made, how much that would have cost us? At the moment our website have cost us around $ 600, to have that custom made would have costs us around 6k minimum, and I do not think it would do any better job than it is doing now. If you have really lot of money to spend why not, have a custom made script, but in most cases it is just not practical. I would rather spend that money on marketing.

                    If you start an article directory you have to keep in mind that 95% of the articles will come from submission services and the only feature you need for an author, is to be able to accept them from sites like Content Crooner, Isnare, Article Marketer and so on. As far as manual submissions by author go, I am keen article marketer and I have been submitting lot of articles in many article directories over the years and I do not look for any special features for authors before I submit my articles, all I want is that the particular article directory has high enough page rank that it would provide me enough clicks and some link juice. Good example is ezinearticles, there is no special features for authors but it is one of the most popular article directories. Ezinearticles is also a good example what you said about too many ads. There is adsence all over the place but I am getting more traffic form them than from any other article directory.
                    And what was said about the hackers, for $50 -100 you can have very good hacker software that will do superb job.
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                    • Profile picture of the author theimdude
                      Originally Posted by TheRichJerksNet View Post

                      You just have no idea ... I build custom built sites and yes I can supply an article directory 300% better .. Authors want features and you can compare it to EZA all you want .. Many of the adsense farms will be going out of business this coming year.

                      You offer nothing but for author to post, they will use your site just to slap junk articles thus bringing down the directory..

                      I also disagree that 95% of the articles come from submissions on all article directories because some have paid models that do not allow auto submissions...

                      Again though those article directories that take auto submit many of the articles are nothing but junk.

                      James
                      James for 2010 try and not always knock everything that is said on this forum but add some positive input. There are 1000's of open source scripts out there and they work just fine.

                      1) If somebody comments on wordpress you knock wordpress but;

                      You sell a modified wordpress

                      2) If somebody comment on ezine you knock ezine but you have a article directory as well you selling

                      3) If somebody wants to ask about starting a article directory and need some advice you knock anything they ask about and then all of a sudden you will write them a "James" version for $1000

                      Can't we like try and keep it positive as we not here to fight each other but help each other.
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            • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
              These are features for the site owner .. Where are the features for Authors ?? Huge difference and trust me when I say many article directories like this will go away soon because they offer nothing to the author..

              Way too many ads that distract from your articles means less clicks and unless you are an authority site those google ads at the top of the articles helps nothing for SEO of the articles ..

              So ask yourself.. are those ads worth the risk of losing your authors because of poor seo and poor rankings ??

              I am not saying they can not be ranked with adsense but the fact is an article without adsense at the top will rank better and easier...

              When building an article directory you need to think about "what am I going to be able to offer Authors" ... Stop thinking about what you can do for yourself as the site owner.. Meet the needs of authors and they will meet your needs in return..

              James

              Originally Posted by howinfo View Post

              Here is some of the ArticleFrendly features:

              Admin ability to ping major blogrolls such as Technorati, weblogs.com & pingomatic!
              Complete database repairs within the admin section.
              SEF Urls. Important pages show as .html rather than dynamic urls (AF Pro Version).
              Adsense ready. Enter your Pub ID Number and your adsense ads are done! Couldn't be easier!............
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  • Profile picture of the author rohnsmith
    I do not use any scrip either I do it manually
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  • Profile picture of the author warrich
    I use PHPLD V4.21 on my 200+ web directory and love it. The script is pretty cheap ($30 Each scripts ) and has TONS of pre-optimized features (it even makes perfect google and yahoo sitemaps to be submitted!)
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Canfield
    Check out Hotaru CMS. It is free and is truly an amazing script. I have used it for social bookmarking sites but it would work just as well for an article directory and there are many types of plugins available. Hotaru CMS - Open Source Plugin-Powered CMS Engine
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